The fanatic is, notwithstanding, nothing but a worldling too narrow and violent to understand the world, while the mystic is a sensualist too rapt and voluptuous to rationalise his sensations.
The sensualist at least is not worldly, and though his nature be atrophied in all its higher part, there is not lacking, as we have seen, a certain internal and abstract spirituality in his experience.
The son of a saint becomes mysteriously a drunkard or a fraud, and the son of a sensualist becomes an ascetic.
And he was not only a sensualist and a tyrant, an egotist, and to some extent an idolater, but he was a cynic, sceptical of all good, and of the very attainments which had made him famous.
The signs of a flesh-pleaser or sensualist are these (which may be gathered from what is said already): 1.
Even the flesh itself may forbid a sensualist to be drunk, or to eat till he be sick; for sickness and shame are displeasing to the flesh.
I would not thank the most beastly sensualist among you, to live as temperately (as to the act) as the strictest saint alive, if he did but see the worlds which departed souls now see.
Will not a sensualist do as much as this, if his physician require it for his health?
A sensualist craving to be admitted of Cato among his familiars, Cato answered him, I cannot live with one whose palate is wiser than his brain.
Why doth the worldling over-love his wealth, and the proud man his greatness and repute, and the sensualist his pleasures, but because they first over-love that flesh and self which all these are but the provision for.
But the criticism of the sensualist and relativist positions cannot be made from the point of view of those who proclaim the absolute nature of taste and yet place it among the intellectual concepts.
If even you are a sensualist at heart, what of your brother, Ivan?
He’s such a sensualist that I should be afraid for my daughter or my wife if she went to confess to him.
You’re a sensualist from your father, a crazy saint from your mother.
Casanova was a sensualist without psychical complexity and without tragedy.
The slave of love is a sensualistincapable of approaching woman in a normally manly, instinctive and natural way, but requiring the pose of the spiritual worshipper.
He shares this attitude with the slave of love, who is also a sensualist and a would-be lover.
The sensualist who loves the body more than the soul is base.
And yet there can be no doubt that it is not the fictitious object of love which is conclusive, but the emotion of the lover: the sensualist can approach God and the Virgin with inflamed senses, but to the lover every woman is divine.
Perhaps this was not without reason, since Kerry had seen Kitty Tynan angrily unclasping Burlingame's arm from around her waist, and had used cutting and decisive words to the sensualist afterwards.
A sensualist himself, it was not conceivable to him that men and women could be under the same roof without "passages of sympathetic friendship and tokens of affinity.
To begin with, there was not enough money coming in, unless somebody could wheedle a cheque out of that rich old Koppen sensualist whose yacht might be arriving at any moment.
Another effect is noticed in the physiognomy which changes in accordance with the development of the nerve centres and presents all the appearances of the typical sensualist or prostitute.
In the normal man, sexual excitement results upon the mental vision; in the sensualist the excitement precedes the vision.
The sensualist has no justification, but our laws are excessively cruel in their dealings with this class to which allusion is made.
Dostoievsky says there are no old women--to be sure he puts the expression in the mouth of the sensualist Karamazov--and as a corollary I maintain that nothing is uninteresting if painted by a master hand, from carrots to Chopin.
With a gesture he destroys the sentimental scaffolding of the sensualist and marches on to new intellectual conquests.
Now in this matter of physical appetites I do not know whether to describe myself as a sensualist or an ascetic.
If an ascetic is one who suppresses to a minimum all deference to these impulses, then certainly I am not an ascetic; if a sensualist is one who gives himself to heedless gratification, then certainly I am not a sensualist.
He sees an Apostle in the blaspheming Saul, a teacher for all generations in the African Augustine while yet a sensualist and a Manichee, a reformer in the eager monk Luther, a poet-evangelist in the tinker Bunyan.
Yet a sensualist of the intellectual range of Petronius may have occasionally visions of a better world than that to which he has sunk.
Hence it is that the sensualist is equally miserable when his pleasures are denied, and when they are exhausted.
Was there ever such a combination of thesensualist imagination with the ideal of ascetic purity, of the terrors and dark arts of anile superstition with the mystic vision of God, as in the soul of Apuleius?
Yet there must have been some strange power in a religion which could for a moment lift a sensualist imagination like that of Apuleius almost to the height and purity of Eckhart and Tauler.
The exquisite Armand, seeking pleasure constantly, is divided into the sensualist who seduces and ruins and the introspectionist who watches the proceeding with disgust and disillusion.
And the sensualist devoted to the good of his belly and his pocket loves his child and shows it by feeding and enriching him.
In the long run it would be difficult to decide which did more harm in the world, a conscientious persecutor or bigot, an Alvarez or James the First, or a dissolute, conscienceless sensualist like Charles the Second.
His talents, therefore, only preyed on himself; and instead of the vigorous and daring actor of the world, he was alternately the indolent sensualist or the solitary dreamer.
The calculating sensualist can never comprehend this swiftly exalted emotion, this immediate radiation of light through all life, which is like the sun breaking through clouds on a dark day.
Voltaire and the sensualist Rousseau, took the places of St. Peter and St. Paul!
With Hume, the sensualist theory, so far from giving an account of knowledge, ended in pure phenomenalism, i.
Obsolete Theories of Knowledge Formerly three explanations of our knowledge prevailed in philosophy: the hypothesis of a primitive revelation; the idealist theory; and the sensualist theory.
The excesses and failures of idealist theories of knowledge have always given rise in history to the opposite theory of sensualist nominalism, according to which our ideas are simply transformed sensations.
Why does not this theorist go into the midst of European civilization, into the heart of London or Paris, and gauge the moral knowledge of the sensualist by the moral character of the sensualist?
From the Occident, from France, from the negative, materialist, sensualist philosophy of the Encyclopaedia imported into Russia by Catherine II.
So gifted a nature will absorb a good deal of mere sensual vice, it is true, but a sensualist could hardly be a pure and noble organ of humanity.
That the Puritan Revolution was followed by a sacerdotal and sensualist reaction is too true: all revolutions are followed by reactions; it is one great reason for avoiding them.
But if he had lived and acted for another century what could he have done with those moral and political materials but found what he did found--a military and sensualist empire?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensualist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
